Hey guys I'm back, first of I would like to say I'm so sorry that I didn't update like I said I would, but work has taken over a great deal of my life thankfully I've got two weeks off so I might be able to get some more writing done, on another note I hope everyone had a happy Christmas, so I thought it's time to get my shit together I have made you suffer for far too long which makes me feel terrible cause let's face it we've all been there, a dude or dudette write's a story they update a few time's and then it's just left behind to collect dust well not this time! I WILL complete this story if it's the last thing I do! Sorry for ranting like that but I needed to vent a little anyway here it is at fucking last the fourth chapter, happy new year everyone.
KG: "R.O.B roll the disclaimer's"
R.O.B: "I-Don't-want-to."
KG: "R.O.B if you don't I will reprogram you to listen to One Direction."
R.O.B: "NO!-don't-I'll-do-it-Killer-Gear-dose-not-own-my-little-pony."
KG: "See was that so hard?"
R.O.B: I-hate-you."
Chapter 4: Exploration, enter the CMC's and Rescue.
In a Tree-house.
"Alright girl's, as we have heard there's some strange creature out in the Everfree forest, now we have been trying everything possible to get our cutie marks, even to see if we could get plant growing cutie marks, which is just way too boring, so, I say that we try to get our nature watch cutie marks." said a confident orange furred fillie with a purple mane, her name was Scootaloo.
"No it's too dangerous." Said a very worried, white coated fillie.
"What!? Didn't you hear me; this could be our chance to get our cutie marks." Scootaloo replied in surprise that Sweetie belle didn't want to try to get her nature watching cutie mark.
Sweetie Belle: "But it's in the Everfree forest."
Scootaloo: "So?"
Sweetie belle: "There's manticore's, timber wolfs and all sorts of bad things in there."
Scootaloo: "Come on we've been in there so many times now we know it like the back of our own hooves, we'll be in and out before anything like that happens."
"Come on Sweetie Belle, this could be the day we get our cutie marks." said a yellow fillie that had a pink ribbon in her red mane, her name is Applebloom. (And she is absolutely adorable ^W^)
"Besides Zecora lives in there, if we run in to any trouble we can go see her." Scootaloo added.
"Well… okay." Sweetie Belle said in defeat tone.
"Yes!" said an excited Applebloom and Scootaloo.
"Alright, let's grab the camera and head off then." said Scootaloo.
At the entrance to the Everfree forest.
The three young fillie just stood there in front of the infamous Everfree forest, the most dangerous place in all of Equestria, sometimes the forest itself looked like as if it was a monster even now it felt like it was staring at them like they were its next meal.
"Alright let's do this and get our cutie marks." said Scootaloo
"Cutie mark crusaders, yay!" they shouted and then rushed into the dense dark forest.
It had been a few hours now and they hadn't even came close to finding the same creature that mister sea serpent saw, just a manticore that thankfully didn't notice them it seemed more focused on following a scent.
"Girls I'm getting tired from all this walking can we take a break? Pleaseeeee." said Sweetie Belle as she sat down and started to rub her sore hooves.
"Awe come on, were this close to finding the strange creature." whined Scootaloo, not wanting to stop and miss a chance at her cutie mark.
"I'm with Sweetie Belle Scootaloo, we've been walkin' for a long time now." said Applebloom in agreement as she was starting to fell fatigue from the distance that they had covered.
"*groans* Alright fine then, but after our break we're going to find that critter even if it's the last thing we do." proclaimed a frustrated Scootaloo.
They walked a little further to find a small clearing that had a small patch of grass and a beam of light that shone through a gap in the dense forest tree tops which was a surprise due to the fact that most of the Everfree forest was dark gravel, dirt, twigs and foliage that covered the ground.
"Finally I thought my legs were gonna fall off." said an exhausted Sweetie Belle as she sat down on a nearby tree stump and begun to rub her hooves.
"Ah, this is nice." Exclaimed Applebloom as she flopped onto the cool green grass and basked in rays of the warm sun.
"Meh, I guess this is alright." Said Scootaloo in a "I don't really care tone".
Five minutes later of rest and we felt it was time to continue onward on our quest to find the mysterious creature of the Everfree Forest that is until we heard some rustling in the bushes nearby.
"Girl's did you hear that?" asked Scootaloo.
"What is it?" replied a nervous Sweetie Belle.
"Maybe, it's that strange new critter that Mister Sea Serpent was talkin' about?" whispered a slightly nervous Applebloom.
"Quick get the camera ready." said an excited Scootaloo at the thought of finally getting their cutie mark.
Applebloom grabbed the camera that was next to her pointed at the bush where the noise was coming from waiting to take the picture of the creature that they presumed was hiding in the bushes, they waited for what felt like an eternity while in reality it had been a mere two minutes were a rabbit had jumped out startling the young fillies at first but in the end it just made them sigh in disappointment and relief.
"Awe, pony-feathers it's just a rabbit, at this rate we'll never earn our cutie marks." Said a slightly down, but still determined Scootaloo.
"At least it wasn't some terrifying pony eating monster." Exclaimed the relieved Sweetie Belle.
As if the deity of chaos itself had heard her a manticore suddenly jumped out of the same bush as the bunny had done letting out a monstrous growl as it stared them down, eyeing them as its new meal.
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed the three of them as they sat there frozen in fear as the manticore advanced forward looking more than ready to rip their flesh from their bones and chew on them, when something jumped out of the tree tops and landed in front of them, it was tall and stood on two legs, had no tail, a mid-length blond mane was atop of it head, it wore a black hooded jumper-like jacket, grey pants covered its legs, what looked like grey socks covered its claws but left the tips exposed and black shoes, they couldn't see its face but whatever it was had made the manticore wince, then "whoosh" the manticore was sent flying into a tree
With Ventus.
It had been about 3 hours since I started my scout out and as it went on I felt like it was taking too long so I decided to invent a new way of getting around, "Tree hopping", by simply jumping from treetop to treetop, with some wind manipulation, I could cover more ground and I wouldn't have to deal with any creature's that were possibly hostile towards me on the ground, thankfully I had not run into anything of that nature, yet.
After what seemed like an hour of tree hopping, I decided that it would be good to stop for a break, sitting down on the branch I was currently on, I begun to reflect on how much my life had changed since coming to the surface, the light from the sun was warm and welcoming unlike the light of "glow stones", long story short once upon a time, some miners were searching for ore when they broke through a fragile wall and into a natural cavern where they found a natural spring, mushrooms and a light source, before we always used torches which while they did the job they had their problems as well, such as they'd go out after a few hours or because there wasn't enough oxygen present.
*SNAP*
I was brought out of my revision on my life by that loud sound; I then looked down to see something… bizarre?
"What. The. Fuck. Is. that?" I said to myself in thought, if you were to see through his eyes you would see a creature that had yellow fur with a large red mane, long buff front legs, small hind legs, a pair of large bat wings sprouted from its back and to top it all off it had a long red armoured like tail that had a spike on it.
"Seriously, what the fuck is that, it looks like something from a bad dream after eating one to many shrooms." I thought while observing the strange four-legged creature.
Meanwhile on the ground the manticore was sniffing the air, trying to identify this new scent it picked up, it let off a low growl of disapproval, remaining as quiet as I could, I cautiously took a sniff of the shirt I was wearing it smelt… sweaty.
Back on the ground, the manticore looked up to see some strange creature that was clad in black and grey, it was in a crouched down position on a high tree branch looking at him with his deep blue orbs.
After having a smell at myself, I focused my attention back to the creature below me; my eyes suddenly widened with surprise.
"Oh shit it knows I'm here, *sigh* just relax man your up high in the tree's, there's no way it can reach you." he said in thought to calm his mind of the beast below him, it did very little though, if this animal was able to discover my presence by simply sniffing at the air alone then who knows what else its capable of, the thought of it alone made me very nervous.
I then looked back down to observe the strange four legged creature some more only to see a clawed paw coming at me, I was so distracted by my train of thought I hadn't even realised that it had climbed up the tree so quickly, out of pure instinct I "Air launched" myself backwards while doing a backflip in the process and safely landing on another high branch.
Looking back at the yellow furred fiend with a glare, in which he returned with a low growl of displeasure at losing a large meal; it didn't seem intimidated by my glare if anything else it looked severely pissed off and then for some reason I got a stupidly brilliant idea, I was going to have a little fun with the oversized fluff ball in front of me.
"You mad bro?" I asked with a big shit-eating grin plastered on my face, the response I received was a low yet dangerous growl as if it was daring me to continue, which I happily obliged.
"Yeah you mad." I said, my grin remained on my face as I looked at the large beast thinking that I had the advantage of both the environmental terrain and my skills, meanwhile the manticore looked like it was ready to jump off the tree trunk and try to swipe at me.
"Uh, uh, uh, I wouldn't do that if I were you." I said in a mock-scolding fashion as I was waving my index finger from side to side, my grin never wavered in fact it felt like it grew, but I couldn't help myself it was just so amusing that I was treating a dangerous creature -that was not only larger and probably stronger than me- as if it was a misbehaving child, it would seem that was the last straw as the manticore launched itself forward with the intent to kill, but all that happened was it begun to fall and then in a last attempt to get at me it flapped its wings, too bad that they were meant for gliding as it simply crashed into a tree and plummeted to the ground making aloud "thud" that made me wince.
"Ouch, that's gonna hurt in the mornin'." I said as I looked down at the now grounded manticore, I couldn't help myself but aim an insult to injury to the overgrown pussy cat that had some freaky additions.
"I told you so, but did you listen? Noooo of course not, why listen to the two legged creature? What does he know? Well I'll tell you what I know, a lot." I bellowed down to the possibly unconscious manticore whose leg would twitch every so often.
The creature then stood up and begun to glare dangerously at the rambling biped creature, angry and humiliated it decided that the creature wasn't worth the trouble or the effort and with its wounded pride it walked away while thinking of something else to fill his stomach, meanwhile Ventus had started a trolling rant about the "epicness" of his victory over the manticore.
"Oh yeah, that's an epic win for me, cause I just pwned you to tha max, I was like "You want some of dis? Well come at me bro." and then you totally failed in like slow-mo." I boasted, feeling pretty fucking awesome right about now, I mean who wouldn't? I just stared down and mocked/trolled a dangerous creature and - while looking good doing it to if I might add- lived to tell about it.
"*sigh* Well that was fun, might as well explore a little more then I'll head back to camp in a few." I said to myself as I returned to tree hopping in search of…. Well anything and everything I guess.
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
After hearing that scream I was immediately on high alert, looking in the direction of where it came from I realised that it was the same direction that the four legged freak show went and it must have found something new to go on the menu and it could talk and if it could talk it could help me out of this creepy ass forest, immediately I bolted in that direction dodging tree branches until I saw a light in a distance that had pierced the forests thick canopy, with a quick bolt of speed I zipped out into the light to see the furball had corned a couple of… bright coloured creatures?
They were all the same size roughly 3ft tall one had a yellow coat with red mane and orange eyes, another had a white coat with a violet and light pink mane and green eyes, the final one had an orange coat with purple mane and amethyst eyes, all in all it was odd, but that still didn't change the fact that I had to save them from Mr. Fluffy.
Landing in front of them on the ground making the carnivore jump back in surprise which was instantly replaced be rage as it set its eyes on the being who had mocked him earlier, it went to take a step forward when it flinched at seeing the once warm happy blue's that it had seen before, were replace by cold, dark voids that seemed to practically look into his soul.
Seeing the four legged freak show flinch I took that chance to launch a "Gale Blast" at him sending away from me and the three little ones and into a tree, after a few moments Mr. big-bad-and-fluffy picked himself up off the ground still quickly shaking its head about to get the cobwebs out of its head he re-directed his attention to the biped creature before him ready for round two when it felt something rush past its head and heard the sound of something drill behind him and then feeling a lot of wind whoosh past him, looking out of the corner of his eye it saw a large hole in the tree trunk, looking back to the biped it saw that its arm was out stretched upon further inspection of the outstretched limb he could see what looked like a white swirling mini-vortex enveloping it's arm as if the winds had taken on physical form, quickly realizing that it had done that and the fact that it was still giving him a look that clearly stated "Take another step and you dead." Reluctantly the manticore turned around and walked away leaving empty pawed…. Again, knowing full well that this being was not to be taken lightly.
I sighed in relief as the furry thing left apparently it was smart enough to get the message when I launched an "Air bullet" past its head, quick explanation an "air bullet" is where I take the air around me and focus it into my hand the size of a small ball and then for a sort of shell around it to prevent the air from escaping I then add a little spin to it like a drill and then launch it at my intended target, it then drilled into it then after a small delay it caused a detonation like effect leaving a larger hole.
Turning around to check on the little ones I saw that they had a look of shock, awe and was that… fear? Lowering myself slowly and gently to the ground so not to scare them I offered up my most warm smile I could and said "Hey are you alright?" the response I got was not unexpected… they fainted, "*Sigh* awe man, c'mon cut me some slack, great now what am I gonna do?" I asked myself.
After weighing my option's I decided to take them back to camp with me 'cause I didn't know the way out and let's be honest if I did find the way out I might freak out the other residence from where ever these three are from, however if I were to return with them that might calm them down if only slightly, 10 minutes later I was back at camp laying my… Uh, guests? Down on my sleeping bag, looking up I noticed it was nearly noon "Time to make some lunch."
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